I’m sure a government that can run an enterprise like the Post Office so smoothly can handle something as simple as life-and-death decisions for all Americans. So, let’s move on.

Drugs? Why stop at legalizing marijuana? If that pilot, or airline mechanic, or your kids’ school bus driver has had a little too much of his or her favorite substance and we lose a few folks along the way, well, that’s just the price we’ll pay for this new America.

Yep, it’s a new day, folks. It’s going to be great.

So, why do I still feel like we’ve failed if that 20-year-old Marine could ask me now, “We took Iwo for this?”